Portable paving plant



(No Model.) 4 Sheets-Sheet 1. S. WHINERY.

PORTABLE PAVING PLANT. No. 451,989. Patented May 12, $91

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S WHINERY.

PORTABLE PAVING PLANT.

(No Model.) 4 Sheets-Sheet 4. S. WHINERY.

PORTABLE PAVING PLANT.

Patented May 12, 1891.

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I ammfimm dtorlww TATES SAMUEL IVHINERY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PORTABLE PAVING PLANT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,989, dated May 12,1891.

Application filed December 30, 1889. Serial No. 3ii5A53. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL WHlNERY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio,have invented a new and useful Portable Paving Plant, of which thefollowing is a specification.

In making asphalt pavements considerable apparatus is required, andheretofore it has been necessary to construct a plant at large expensein each place where pavement was to be laid. The dismantling of such aplant, the removal of such of the parts as could be again used, andreconstruction in another place involved somuch expense that the use ofasphalt pavements was confined to the larger places where the amount ofsuch pavement was to be laid was sufficient to justify the erection of aplant for that purpose alone.

It is the object of my invention to provide a paving plant soconstructed, combined, and arranged that it may be readily removed fromplace to place without dismantling the various parts, and again madeready for operation without the delay and expense involved inconstructing a plant of the kind heretofore in use.

My invention consists in the combination and arrangement of partshereinafter described and specified.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a top plan view of my apparatus.Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are end elevationsof the cars. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a portion of a car. Figs. 5and 6 are cross-sections through the cars. Fig. 5 is a side elevation ofa portion of a car. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of car A. Fig. Sis a sideelevation of car B.

A and B represent platform-cars provided with hinged sides a and Z2,adapted to be folded down to form an extension to the floor of the carwhen the apparatus is set up.

0 is a mixer-floor detachably connected with the floor of the car. Thefolding sides and this floor are supported by detachablesupporting-frames consisting of trestles D, hav

ing legs d and braces 61. The legs are mountand its extended floor.

frames at the ends of the car do not extend across the car, but space isleft for the draW- I by hangers ff and provided With a universal joint fbetween the cars to allow the machinery to be operated .when the carsare not upon an exact level or an absolutely straight track. By means ofthis shaft motion is communicated to a sand-elevator, sand-drums, andmixer-knives, as hereinafter specified.

At the end of the car A is placed a sandhopper G, having abucket-elevator H running therefrom to a heater I on the car providedwith rotating drums 2'. The elevator is operated from the line-shaft Fthrough an upright shaft J, a horizontal shaft K, and a belt L. \Vhenthe sand has been suficiently heated, it is delivered through a screento a receiver or upon the floor of the car. At a convenient position tothe side of car A is located the mixer-floor 0, having thereon a mixerM, provided with rotating mixingknives m, operated by a belt N, drivenfrom the line-shaft.

A crane O is located upon the car A between the mixer and the deliveryend of the sand-heaters, and has a traveling bucket 0, suspended fromits arm, for conveying the heated sand to the mixer.

P is a jib-crane for raising the asphalt to the melting-tanks Q,situated at the opposite end of the car B from the engine. In thesetanks the asphalt is melted and then drawn off by means of cocks q qinto a bucket R, traveling on a removable race S to the mixer. Aremovable floor T connects the two cars.

I claim-- 1. In a portable paving plant, the cars A and B, having hingedsides adapted to form extensions of the floor and provided withdetachable supporting-frames, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

2. Aportable paving plant consisting of an engine, a line-shaft driventhereby, and a mixer, sand-drums, and conveyer mounted uponrailway-carshavinghingedsidesadapted to form extensions of the floor andprovided With detachable supportin g-frames, the mixer, sand-drums, andconveyer being connected with and adapted to be operated by the line-(No Model.)

W. WICKE RSHAM. PRINTERS QUOIN.

No. 451,990. Patented May 12, 1891.

